![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Voyager 2 Proves Solar System is Squashed - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab, Model Data from Opher, et al. 2006
As of August 30, 2007, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars. Note: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 headed on different paths out of the Solar System toward interstellar space. Traveling at different speeds and in different directions, Voyager 1 encountered the termination shock at 94 astronomical units (AU) and Voyager 2 encounte...
Keywords: Heliosphere, Solar System, Heliopause, Voyager; What -- Voyager 1; What -- Voyager 2; What -- Voyager; Where -- California
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